Author:
Weinstein, Arnold.
Imprint:Springfield, VA : The Teaching Co., c2001.
Description:42 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 7 course guides (22 cm.)
Note:Teaching Company: Course no. 250 (on containers: 254--260).
Note:In 7 containers.
Note:Compact discs.
Note:"Course no. 250."
Note:Part 1: disc 1. Lecture 1. Introduction to classics of American literature. Lecture 2. Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography: the first American story. -- disc 2. Lecture 3. Washington Irving: the first American storyteller. Lecture 4. Ralph Waldo Emerson's yesterday: America's coming of age. -- disc 3. Lecture 5. Emerson today: architect of American values. Lecture 6. Emerson tomorrow: deconstructing culture and self. -- disc 4. Lecture 7. Henry David Thoreau: countercultural hero. Lecture 8. Thoreau: stylist and humorist extraordinaire. -- disc 5. Lecture 9. Walden: yesterday, today, tomorrow. Lecture 10. Edgar Allan Poe. -- disc 6. Lecture 11. Poe: ghost writer. Lecture 12. Poe's legacy: the self as "Haunted Palace."
Note:Part 2: disc 7. Lecture 13. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the American past. Lecture 14. The Scarlet letter: Puritan romance. -- disc 8. Lecture 15. Hawthorne's "A": interpretation and semiosis. Lecture 16. The Scarlet letter: political tract or psychological study? -- disc 9. Lecture 17. Hawthorne our contemporary. Lecture 18. Herman Melville and the making of Moby-Dick. -- disc 10. Lecture 19. The biggest fish story of them all. Lecture 20. Ahab and the white whale. -- disc 11. Lecture 21. Moby-Dick: tragedy of perspective. Lecture 22. Melville's "Benito Cereno": American (mis)adventure at sea. -- disc 12. Lecture 23. "Benito Cereno": theater of power, or power of theater? Lecture 24. Walt Whitman: the American bard appears.
Note:Part 3: disc 13. Lecture 25. Whitman: poet of the body. Lecture 26. Whitman: poet of the city. -- disc 14. Lecture 27. Whitman: poet of death. Lecture 28. The Whitman legacy. -- disc 15. Lecture 29. Uncle Tom's cabin: the unread classic. Lecture 30. Stowe's representation of slavery. -- disc 16. Lecture 31. Freedom and art in Uncle Tom's cabin. Lecture 32. Emily Dickinson: in and out of nature. -- disc 17. Lecture 33. Dickinson's poetry: language and consciousness. Lecture 34. Dickinson: devotee of death. -- disc 18. Lecture 35. Dickinson: "Amherst's Madame de Sade." Lecture 36. Dickinson's legacy.
Note:Part 4: disc 19. Lecture 37. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: American paradise regained. Lecture 38. Huckleberry Finn: the banned classic. -- disc. 20. Lecture 39. Huckleberry Finn: a child's voice, a child's vision. Lecture 40. Huckleberry Finn, American orphan. -- disc 21. Lecture 41. Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson: black and white charade. Lecture 42. Henry James and the novel of perception. -- disc 22. Lecture 43. The Turn of the screw: do you believe in ghosts? Lecture 44. Turning the screw of interpretation. -- disc 23. Lecture 45. Stephen Crane and the literature of war. Lecture 46. The Red badge of courage: brave new world. -- disc 24. Lecture 47. Stephen Crane: scientist of human behavior. Lecture 48. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: war against patriarchy.
Note:Part 5: disc 25. Lecture 49. "The Yellow Wallpaper": descent into hell or free at last? Lecture 50. Robert Frost and the spirit of New England. -- disc 26. Lecture 51. Robert Frost: "At home in the metaphor." Lecture 52. Robert Frost and the fruits of the earth. -- disc 27. Lecture 53. T.S. Eliot: unloved modern classic. Lecture 54. T.S. Eliot: "The Waste Land" and beyond. -- disc 28. Lecture 55. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: American romance. Lecture 56. The Great Gatsby: a story of lost illusions? -- disc 29. Lecture 57. Fitzgerald's triumph: writing the American dream. Lecture 58. Ernest Hemingway's The Sun also rises: novel of the lost generation. -- disc 30. Lecture 59. The Sun also rises: spiritual quest. Lecture 60. Ernest Hemingway: wordsmith.
Note:Part 6: disc 31. Lecture 61. Hemingway's The Garden of Eden: female desire unleashed. Lecture 62. The Garden of Eden: combat zone. -- disc 32. Lecture 63. William Faulkner's The Sound and the fury: the idiot's tale. Lecture 64. The Sound and the fury: failed rites of passage. -- disc 33. Lecture 65. The Sound and the fury: signifying nothing? Lecture 66. Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: Civil War epic. -- disc 34. Lecture 67. Absalom, Absalom!: the languages of love. Lecture 68. Absalom, Absalom!: the overpass to love. -- disc 35. Lecture 69. The Grapes of wrath: American saga. Lecture 70. John Steinbeck: poet of the little man. -- disc 36. Lecture 71. The Grapes of wrath: reconceiving self and family. Lecture 72. Invisible man: black bildungsroman.
Note:Part 7: disc 37. Lecture 73. Invisible man: reconceiving history and race. Lecture 74. Invisible man: "What did I do to be so black and blue?" -- disc 38. Lecture 75. Eugene O'Neill: great god of American theater. Lecture 76. Long day's journey into night: there's no place like home. -- disc 39. Lecture 77. Tennesse Williams: managing libido. Lecture 78. A Street named Desire: the death of romance. -- disc 40. Lecture 79. Death of salesman: death of an ethos? Lecture 80. Death of salesman: tragedy of the American dream. -- disc 41. Lecture 81. Toni Morrison's Beloved: dismembering and remembering. Lecture 82. Beloved: a story of "thick love." -- disc 42. Lecture 83. Beloved: Morrison's writing of the body. Lecture 84. Conclusion to Classics of American literature.
Performers:Arnold Weinstein, lecturer.
Note:Professor Weinstein presents eighty-four lectures on the great classics of American literature, showing how such authors as Irving, Poe, Thoreau, Hemingway, and Faulkner bring the past to life, changing as each generation steps forward to interpret it anew.
Note:Compact disc.
